- Resource Monitor can be a great tool to monitor…what's going on with our disk activity in our storage.…A lot of times we go to Task Manager,…and we don't really see the big picture…when it comes to the disk.…Now, the Task Manager has been improved…tremendously in 2012 because it does…give you a lot better information…than it use to.…But, one of the things that's missing…is the disk information.…So, if you look under the Performance Tab,…you see Open Resource Monitor.…

Let's go ahead and click on that,…and we'll close the Task Mananger…because it uses a lot of resources.…We're going to take a look and see…what's happening on our disk,…because a lot of times the bottle-neck…is happening at the disk level…and you just don't see it unless you open…up this particular utility.…So, when we expand our disk we can see…all the different executables and all the different…services that are using a disk I/O,…input/output.…

On the right hand side we see Disk,…and we can see the graph.…It shows us up and down based on what's happening.…

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2/22/2016

Efficient and secure storage is a key piece of any enterprise network. That's why IT managers look for admins that have mastered the ability to configure file and storage solutions on Windows Server. This training course is for current and future Windows administrators who need to set up and manage NFS and DFS, DAC, virtual storage, and RAIDs, and manage file permissions on Windows Server 2012 R2. Instructor Robert McMillen covers Windows storage pools, iSCSI targets and initiators, Distributed File System, and Windows System Resource Manager. Techniques such as configuring tiered storage and redundant storage, data deduplication, and setting up file shares are also covered in detail.